Paul Noble: New Works Jean Dykstra in his quest to create

in his quest to create a “permanent American art

we celebrate the centenary of Avedon’s birth with reflections from a range of cultural figures and a personal essay by author and poet Jake Skeets

and Chinese poets Tao Yuanming (c

” as well as an interview with the artist by Josef Helfenstein that provides insight into Marden’s process

Paul Noble: New Works Jean Dykstra in his quest to createThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Paul Noble: New Works at Gagosian, San Francisco, featuring new drawings made between 2015 and 2017. A meticulous visionary, Noble builds encrypted visual universes. Using language as image, and images as a grammatical system of signs, he shows the malleability of all forms of syntax, a legible schema of interlocking words, drawings, and objects. Nobles art presents a reality that appears